University of Düsseldorf
Higher EducationNorth Rhine-westphalia, Germany1001-5000 Employees
The University of Düsseldorf, officially Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU), is a higher education institution located at 1 Universitätsstr., Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in 1965 and adopted the name of Heinrich Heine in 1988, and today it serves about 30,000 students on a campus where most facilities, including the University Hospital and libraries, are nearby. The university employs approximately 1,001 to 5,000 staff and operates in a city environment that offers a high quality of life. HHU identifies itself as a civic university with close ties to the citizens of Düsseldorf and is shaped by urban events and community engagement. It maintains an active research portfolio with collaborative centers and ongoing projects in chemistry, biotechnology, genomics, and materials science, including a chemistry simulation tool and the ACCeSS project in collaboration with FZJ and RWTH.